Primary care: essential frontline services that are targeted at individuals within their local community. For example, practitioners who provide primary health care including: GPs, Opticians, Health Visitors and Midwives. Primary health care focus on general health assessment, diagnosis and non-emergency treatment. Some people use primary health care regularly because they have a chronic health problem or disability, that requires continuous monitoring or treatment.
Secondary care: the types of medical, nursing and therapeutic care provided by hospital-based specialists and by social care workers in various settings. Secondary care settings aren't usually the first point of call for patients. The secondary care usually receive a referral. Most secondary care is provided by the NHS.
Tertiary care: for people who have been referred by primary or secondary care professionals. For example, dementia day care settings.
Informal care: provided by a large number of unpaid people who look after their partners, children, relatives and friends.
Types of care provision: Statutory, Private and Independent, Voluntary
Legislation: Health and Social Care Act (2008) Focuses on the integration an regulation of health and social care provision. The act affects the: -availability of services -resources that must be provided to service users -rights of service users -provision of basic service-legal agreements by care organisations
Mental Health Act (1983) Affecting the treatment of adults experiencing serious mental disorders in England and Wales. Safeguards vulnerable adults because of their mental health. Protects the rights of people who use mental health services.
Care Quality Commission Regulations (2009) Regulator of all health and adult social care services in England. Responsible for ensuring all health and social care providers are registered and are delivering quality care when providing regulated activities.
Types of referral: self-referral (individual refers themselves to someone in care), professional referral (someone in care puts someone in touch with another person), third party referral (someone who is not a care practitioner applies for a care service on behalf of someone else)
Factors that affect access to services: Quality issues Socio-economic factors Equality and diversity issues Financial factors Communication issues Geographical location
Multi agency team: Community psychiatric nurse Housing worker District nurse Probation officer Child psychologist General practitioner Social worker Education welfare officer
Pedagogy: Research task: ask students in groups to each research into an act and present to the rest of the class Ask students to consider ways of overcoming barriers to health and social care services and create a poster for this Ask students to create a leaflet outlining the different types of multi agency workers, outlining what they do and where they are found Create case studies of patients, ask students to identify which type of referral has or should be used within the case study. Explain reasons for your answer